Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because its actually quite hard to do. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Everyone else can register to come to both sessions for free, including the Lean Startup talk in the main conference. What does this mean for you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. No vanity metrics should be looked at. I won’t apologize for this aspect of the Lean Startup methodology. No vanity metrics should be looked at. However, a commitment to quality alone is not enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The team hired only the best and the brightest. This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. The team hired only the best and the brightest. I once worked at a startup with an exceptional functional department system.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

15:59] What’s the first strategic sort of leadership hire that you think an agency needs? [17:07] John Jantsch (06:24): Well, so you make a good point because you know, a lot of people hire accountants and they feel like, yeah, that's my, you know, I'm getting my books done. I'm gonna go hire 'em now they know.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

The median figures for each strategy should give you an idea of which program to lean towards. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics? You can also use LinkedIn to monitor specific hires and departures, and examine company publications for updates that may show intent.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you want to put together a strategic plan to map out your business’s growth potential, you might consider a Lean Business Plan. But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. What is some of the critical metrics that matter? What are your assumptions about each part?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it. As always, Paul is right.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product managers have the exciting responsibility of establishing the goals, roadmap and tracking metrics of their product (among many other duties), and also the less-glamorous but equally-important task of taking care of all the blocking and tackling required?—?from from administration to politik? I learned that software engineers?—?or

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ questions”. Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More features and inventory added early will be wasted as you will need to pivot to match the real market. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More features and inventory added early will be wasted as you will need to pivot to match the real market. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. What kind of location matches your strategy? Are you going to be hiring employees? You can do it even if you start from home.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

If we tried to match them on their playing field we’d never catch up. When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. And paradoxically we had to raise our prices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Generate end user demand (to match our revenue goals) Drive that demand into our sales channels Value price our products to achieve our revenue and margin goals (create high-value) Educate our sales channel(s) Help engineering understand customer needs That was it. We hired union laborers to do that. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We use the lean planning methodology to figure this out. Outline key milestones and metrics. Register for a domain name that matches your business name. Once you’ve found your business location, or set up an office, and set the hiring motions in process, you’ll be ready to begin marketing. Interview and hire employees.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Use this time to make sure that you are matching the business you want to start to your personal aspirations. Milestones and Metrics. Hiring staff. Be sure to take our quiz to find out if you’re entrepreneur material , too. Analyze your industry. The standard business plan includes nine parts: The Executive Summary.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Moneyball uses rigorous statistical data analysis in player selection and attempts to predict the value of the players by using metrics more granular then batting averages and RBIs. Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. It’s not just baseball.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. It doesn’t matter how smart or experienced people are, if they don’t match your style it’ll never work. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire. Until Fab reached 150 people, Bradford and I interviewed every single person we hired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On the other hand, we could match them strength-for-strength as soon as we knew where to go. Im also a big fan of John Boyds work, and your story "from the inside" is a really insightful way of matching maneuver warfare to the political arena. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. 5comments: Jed Christiansen said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

He focuses on having a clear idea of the problem you are trying to solve, running experiments, and then: "Did the results of your test match what you expected? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? If not, kill the feature and start over."

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A more complex real-time prediction occurs billions of times worldwide every millisecond in matching certain types of digital advertising. That’s true whether you plan to license software or hire an outside organization. For most clients, Futurety starts by identifying the key business question—not a specific metric or visualization.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. I have a team of recruitment experts who parse through the profiles of candidates and find the best match for the client according to their love type.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More features and inventory added early will be wasted as you will need to pivot to match the real market. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. What are my ideal match’s skill sets, background, age, geography, work style, level of commitment, compensation requirements, friend vs. new acquaintance, etc…? Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. So hiring more people and being around more people and getting more things done is not actually one of the reasons. What I mean by that is startups nowadays that raise money have absolutely ludicrous metrics. During the meeting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

However, its not very useful to mix and match features from different models. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

A common question I get asked is "do you know someone amazing that we can hire?" I do my best to play matchmaker, but as those of you who have ever tried to fill a job in a startup know, the most important and elusive quality for a startup hire is fit. Great startups are always hiring, if the fit is right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Lets look at a specific example, and start to think through what the metrics might look like if we attempted to measure it: Customer gets a synthetic message saying: "upload some photos!" The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And really this was a focus on, what is the minimum viable thing we can do to serve these groups, connect the donors, restaurants, and hospitals, and be able to get them to efficiently match? Eric Ries : Give us some more vanity metrics, if you would. Ryan Sarver : Well, I think the thing I'd say on the vanity metrics piece of it, $4.1

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And so you got to be honest, you got to be willing to lean in and be open, authentic.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. William Pearson.

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